"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."
There is a place I need to go
Where I can be the someone I want to be
The someone I was created to be
Doing the work that was laid out for me before time ever existed
But in my mind, it is across a swaying, fragile rope bridge
and below I can see there are rocks to break me and rushing water to consume me
Over a deep chasm
My fears taunt me
I stand at the bridge
With My Fears breathing at my back
I watch the bridge sway
My hands shake,
But I grab the ropes and start across
The wind picks up and the bridge rocks harder
I hold on
I keep walking
From a distance,
My Fears scream at me to come back
** I keep moving forward
Until my feet touch the other side
I do not look back
But I know that My Fears have not followed
and my true journey begins*
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything
by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known to God
Philippians 4:6
and that's poetiquejustis
*painting by Slava Brodinsky
** The Scream by Edward Munch 1893
***Ellen Ebert, Rushing Water
